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TROTHS by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: YELLOW DUST ON A BUMBLE
Last Line: ON SOME I KEEP.

YELLOW dust on a bumble
bee's wing,
Grey lights in a woman's
asking eyes,
Red ruins in the changing
sunset embers:
I take you and pile high
the memories.
Death will break her claws
on some I keep.



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